RTL-8139 Network card slow down on 2.6.8.1-mm

Hi, it seems the last mm patches for 2.6.8.1 have caused my network card (Realtek 8139) to go buggy.

When downloading big files (say ftp.kernel.org last kernel) the card will begin downloading at fullspeed of my adsl line, but it will start slowing down the speed, down to zero.

I can't see this effect on the vanilla 2.6.8.1 kernel, but it seems to happen on both -mm3 & -mm4 that I tested. I'm not using any traffic shaping and I even tried to disable quite a few network features trying to solve it with no good results.

I wish I could provide more info than this, but dmesg doesn't seem to show any problems, and I really don't know how to provide more useful data on this. Please let me know if I can help with debugging this or providing more data somehow

Unai

PS: Sorry for writing to this list being it -mm specific, but the linux-mm list address that I have doesn't seem to work anymore

Unai Garro <[email protected]> :

*blush*

This should fix it:

http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.8-rc4-mm1/8139too-mm-revert.patch
http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.8-rc4-mm1/8139too-10.patch
http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.8-rc4-mm1/8139too-20.patch

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Ueimor

http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.8-rc4-mm1/8139too-mm-revert.patch

Yes, that seems to work just fine now. Thanks for the quick response

Unai